is it just me or does anybody else not get why there's suddenly this big deal about blogging and defamation??

as a rational person, i say we should give these kids a break. unless they post naked pictures of themselves on their blogs, it's highly unlikely that they're getting more than 100 hits a day, and then it's even more highly unlikely that the people who read their blogs are actually going to take what they say seriously. i mean, you'd have to be a real retard to believe everything you read on someone's online diary, won't you? and this is even more so if you don't know the blogger personally and just happened to get linked there- it's not like you're likely to know who he/she is talking about. and if you do know the blogger and her subject, then chances are that you're in contact with her in real life and so you've probably already heard whatever she's blogged about in person. (and probably feel the same way too).

from another perspective though, i'd say that the people who are suing for defamation have to be really self-righteous to believe that they absolutely do not deserve the comments posted about them, and big-headed to think that there's actually someone out there who gives a shit about them and what some stupid schoolgirl has to say. seriously, who cares? and if someone's going to devote a few hours of her life tapping away insults about you and your family, then it's quite possible that you don't have much of a reputation to begin with, so why bother taking out a whole lawsuit against a kid who's just having a normal childish rant which she'll probably think better of in a few months? it's not like you can sue someone for saying fuck your mother to your face, can you?

sometimes the irony of the situation astounds me- so like now, who's being petty and childish?